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REGULATORS DIRECTORY
BONDING
John Kearney, environmental
resource analyst . . . . . . . . . . . 304-926-0499, ext. 1534

Baylor Zigmont, inspection specialist . . . . . 307-234-7147
Jeff Gillum, inspection specialist . . . . . . . . . 307-234-7147
Phyllis Kutzer, inspection specialist . . . . . . . 307-234-7147
Dale Vincent, inspection specialist. . . . . . . . 307-234-7147
Rick Wass, inspection specialist . . . . . . . . . 307-234-7147
Casey Toner, inspection specialist . . . . . . . . 307-234-7147
Leroy Sandberg, inspection specialist . . . . . 307-234-7147
Jeff Campbell, inspection specialist . . . . . . . 307-234-7147
Larry Waters, inspection specialist . . . . . . . 307-234-7147
Lucas Keeler, inspection specialist. . . . . . . . 307-234-7147

WYOMING
OIL & GAS CONSERVATION COMMISSION
P.O. Box 2640, Casper, WY 82602-2640; 307-234-7147, Fax
307-234-5306; website http://wogcc.state.wy.us
The Oil & Gas Conservation Commission is an independent
agency headed by Supervisor Mark Watson. Wyoming is treated as a single geographic region for administering oil and gas regulations.
LEGAL
Eric Easton, senior assistant
attorney general. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307-234-7147
TECHNICAL
Tom Kropatsch, deputy supervisor . . . . . . . 307-234-7147
(VACANT), engineering manager . . . . . . . . . 307-234-7147
Sabrina Forbis, engineer II. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307-234-7147
Frank Ingham, engineer II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307-234-7147
Trayce Rauscher, engineer II . . . . . . . . . . . . 307-234-7147
RULE MAKING/INTERPRETATION
(with consent of the commission)
Mark Watson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307-234-7147
FIELD ENFORCEMENT
Tom Kropatsch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307-234-7147
Larry Allen, inspection specialist . . . . . . . . . 307-234-7147
Rick Canterbury, inspection specialist . . . . . 307-234-7147

UIC
Tom Kropatsch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307-234-7147
Mark Watson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307-234-7147
Nancy Barclay, office support specialist. . . . 307-234-7147
RECORDS
Clerical staff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307-234-7147
Sherrill Ondler, office support specialist
(production data). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307-234-7147
Kim Norris, office support specialist
(production data). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307-234-7147
AUDIT
Cynthia I. Cloud, state auditor
(Cheyenne) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307-777-7831
PERMITS
Debra Bagner, office support specialist . . . . 307-234-7147
Mary Trembath, office support specialist. . . 307-234-7147
Jodi May, natural resource technician
(seismic permits) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307-234-7147
Kate Helm, natural resource technical
(base-line water management) . . . . . . . . 307-234-7147

Crude Oil Production Down In January
WASHINGTON-At 9.2 million barrels a day, U.S. crude oil production in
January fell by 0.8 percent (100,000 barrels a day) from December 2015 and was
down by 1.4 percent from January 2015,
according to the American Petroleum Institute's Monthly Statistical Report for
January.
This was the fourth consecutive monthly decline, API reports.
Lower-48 production in January was
at its lowest level since November 2014
at 8.6 MMbbl/d, API points out. This was
down 0.9 percent from December and was
2.2 percent lower than in January 2015.
Texas crude oil production slipped 3.3
percent below its December level, averaging just below 3.4 MMbbl/d. Nevertheless, API says this was 0.4 percent above
Texas' January 2015 output and was the
highest January production level ever
posted by the state. API says Permian
Basin production continued to increase to
just more than 2.0 MMbbl/d.
However, the institute notes, North
Dakota production declined for the fifth
consecutive month. At 1.2 MMbbl/d, North

Dakota's production was down 0.7 percent
from both December and January 2015.
Both the Bakken and Eagle Ford shales
posted production declines in January, averaging 1.1 MMbbl/d and 1.3 MMbbl/d,
respectively, API details.
The institute says natural gas liquids
production was up from both the prior
month and prior year. January NGL production averaged 3.4 MMbbl/d, which
was up by 1.2 percent from December and
was 14.2 percent higher than January
2015. This was the highest January output level on record.
API says production of natural gas in
the Marcellus region fell for the third consecutive month, declining by 0.7 percent
from December to just over 16 billion cubic feet a day. However, API notes, that
was up 1.6 percent from January 2015.
Crude oil stocks ended January at 501.6
million barrels, the highest January inventory level in 86 years, API says.
Crude stocks were up 3.6 percent from
December, and were up 19.0 percent from
January 2015.
Total petroleum deliveries in the Unit-

ed States moved up by 0.8 percent from
the prior year to 19.4 MMbbl/d in January, which API says were the highest January deliveries in eight years. Compared
with December 2015, however, U.S. petroleum demand fell by 1.4 percent.
Gasoline deliveries in January were up
from the prior year, but were down from
the prior month, API mentions. Total gasoline demand moved up 1.4 percent from
January 2015 to 8.8 MMbbl/d, the highest January demand since 2007.
Refinery gross inputs moved up by 2.5
percent from January 2015 to reach a new
high for the month, averaging 16.2 MMbbl/d, API reports. Nevertheless, this was
down 545,000 bbl/d, or 3.3 percent, from
December 2015. API says production of
all four major products-gasoline, distillate, jet fuel and residual fuels-was higher than demand for those products.
January gasoline production averaged
nearly 9.5 MMbbl/d, up 1.6 percent from
the prior year, but down 2.4 percent from
the prior month. Distillate production declined by 4.8 percent from January 2015
and by 10.3 percent from December. ❒
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